8. What persons are authorized to engage in hostilities against the enemy 430 456 18. Good faith towards enemies 20. Power to conclude an armistice 22. Rules for interpreting conventions of truce 23. Recommencement of hostilities on the expiration of truce 24. Capitulations for the surrender of troops and fortresses 25. Passports, safe-conducts, and licenses 12. Restitution by the neutral State of property captured within its juris- diction, or otherwise in violation of its neutrality 13. Limitations of the neutral jurisdiction to restore in cases of illegal 14. Right of asylum in neutral ports dependent on the consent of the neu- 15. Neutral impartiality, in what it consists. 16. Arming and equipping vessels, and enlisting men within the neutral 17. Prohibition enforced by municipal statutes 18. Immunity of the neutual territory, how far it extends to neutral vessels 19. Usage of nations subjecting enemy's goods in neutral vessels to capture 20. Neutral vessels laden with enemy goods subject to confiscation by the 21. Goods of a friend on board the ships of an enemy 22. The two maxims, of free ships free goods, and enemy ships enemy goods, INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY THE EDITOR. THE position, which Mr. Wheaton occupied in the world of letters, and the space, which he fills in the legal and diplomatic annals of his own country, would give interest to the most ample details connected with his biography. These the Editor hopes to be able to present, at a future day, with a selection from those miscellaneous writings, the results of the favorable opportunities for the cultivation of the elegant arts, as well as for investigations more particularly appertaining to his peculiar pursuits, which his long residence in different capitals of Europe afforded. His public despatches, and the correspondence which he carried on with many of the most eminent of his contemporaries, both at home and abroad, on subjects which have entered into the permanent history of the world, or which tend to elucidate questions of constitutional or international law, will likewise impart additional value to "The Life of Henry Wheaton." The pages allotted to an Editorial Notice will not admit of any extended remarks, not immediately applicable to the treatise of which it forms the Introduction. The rank, however, which is accorded to the "Elements of International Law," in the cabinets of Christendom, where it has replaced the elegant treatise of Vattel, whose summary long formed a substitute for the more elaborate works of Grotius and Wolf, and the consideration which it enjoys, not only among diplomatists, but in legislative assemblies and in the tribunals administering the common b |